Environment history

  • Love Canal

    when they planted the seeds and the canal turned into a chemical dumpsite
  • Minamata disaster

    Methylmercury called the (MeHg) poisoning occurring that humans will ingest fish and shellfish
  • Rachel Carson's Silent Spring published

    silent spring is the result of partnership with several years of researching of the east coast
  • Cuyahoga River Fire

    Oil slick on the Cuyahoga river polluted from decades of industrial waste caught on fire on a Sunday morning in June in downtown Cleveland, Ohio
  • Stockholm Conference

    the first world conference to make the environment a major issue
  • Endangered species act

    provided frameworks that will consume and protect the threatened and endangered
  • The Castillo de Bellver Oil Spill

    50-60,000 tons are estimated to have spilled into the sea or burned
  • Bhopal disaster

    over 40 tons of methyl gas leaked from the pesticide plant in many different countries
  • Chernobyl Meltdown

    the explosion of No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
  • Montreal Protocol

    a global agreement to protect the stratospheric ozone layer by phasing out the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances
  • Kyoto Protocol

    united nations framework convention on climate change by committing industrialized countries and economies in transition to limit and reduce greenhouse gases
  • The Nissos Amorgos

    spilt estimated 3,600 tons of crude after grounding in the Maracaibo Channel in Venezuela
  • Documentary film An Inconvenient Truth

    American documentary, released in 2006 featuring Vice President Al Gore
  • Oil spills

    oil in an ancient fossil fuel, oil will spill into the ocean and will start to harm the sea creatures, ruin anyone's hot day at the beach, and will make any future sea food harmful to eat.
  • National Fire

    the current wildfires had burned over 1,927,516 acres. most countries have been struggling with reports of dry fuels with temperatures climbing